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Rob Zombie to Remake The Blob

Variety reports that Rob Zombie plans to remake The Blob. The 1958 film starring Steve McQueen was about an unstoppable jello-like alien blob that crashed to Earth and started consuming humans and expanding as it ate or "absorbed" them. Rob Zombie says his "Blob" will not look like jello because people would laugh.

In the original "Blob," an object from space crashes into a field, containing a red blob-like substance that absorbs the humans it contacts and grows exponentially. While Zombie was a fan of the original, he's formulated a decidedly different take that he would not reveal.

"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."

Zombie will produce with Genre Co.'s Richard Saperstein and Brian Witten; original "Blob" producer Jack H. Harris; and Judith Parker Harris of Worldwide Entertainment Corp. and Andy Gould.

Yes, people do laugh at the idea of the blob now, especially when the old movie poster says things like "Indescribable" and "Nothing Can Stop It!." Rob Zombie has hit work cut out for him to try and make this remake frightening.

Posted on 2009-08-27

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